The death of a forum

[Nerik]

This week was a pretty sad one in terms of my "online life". The Liverpool forum I have formed part of for nearly 13yrs has closed down. I am referring to www.bOOTroom.org

 

This was a forum set up by a group of posters who had been kicked out of LFC Online back in 2003 (long story). It was group of people who had got to know each other online. We were from different parts of the world. From England,Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Australia, India, USA, Singapore, Malta etc. We are all united by our love for Liverpool. Over the years most of us even managed to meet up and go and watch games together. It was a great forum, but there was one major problem. Being set up by a group of "friends" who had been through the LFC Online saga together, it was always hard for new comers to feel as if they'd fit in. New posters would join up and whilst some great guys remained and grew to form part of our community, many others dropped out after a while. Then, as with all small groups, the inevitable happened. Some people fell out of love with online life and posted less regularly. Others got married, moved etc. and could not keep in touch as much as they did before. Others also fell out, as often happens online and often over some trivial comment, and left. Over the past couple of years the amount of posts per day has dwindled significantly. It no longer made sense to keep the forum going as the cost was being shared by an increasingly smaller group of people. We've decided to instead move our chats to a Facebook group. 

 

Enough of my sob story. There are still great Liverpool forums around, starting from this one

[charlie clown]

Sad to hear, Nerik, but understandable. If you need a hug....

[Stanley Leisure]

Honoured to be part of the forum Nerik is making do with.

[Falconhoof]

There's a concept album in this story. I don't think we've heard the last of it.

[Maldini]

There's a concept album in this story. I don't think we've heard the last of it.

Sgt Nerik's Lonely Hearts Club Disband

[drdooom]

Is there one of those Facebook profile overlay thingys we can use to show the world our support for those affected by this event?

[Murphman]

Never heard of them. Plus only the strong survive, f*ck 'em.

[smithdown]

Dirk Bogarde to play Nerik

[New York Red]

Attaboy Murph. Full of feeling you are.

[Cobs]

Is that a cut/paste from someone else or are we saying YNWA has been Nerik's backup forum all along?

[Nerik]

Haha! Some great comments

 

I've been a member here for 12yrs now and have always enjoyed it. It is just that I "part-owned" bOOTroom (anyone noted the OOT yet?) so it was like a pet project. Quite a few other bOOTroom members were/are members here and it was them who pointed me here back in 2004. 

[smithdown]

It sounds simply marvellous.

 

What were the best bits for you Nerik?

[Leo No.8]

Honoured to be part of the forum Nerik is making do with.

If you can't be with the one you love

Love the one you're with

[Nerik]

It sounds simply marvellous.

 

What were the best bits for you Nerik?

 

Well pre-Facebook it was a great place to go, share a few jokes, talk about the game/transfers etc. etc. Some great banter. Many like-minded people who became friends over the years. That's what getting kicked out en masse from a discussion forum does to you hehe

[drdooom]

Well pre-Facebook it was a great place to go, share a few jokes, talk about the game/transfers etc. etc. Some great banter. Many like-minded people who became friends over the years. That's what getting kicked out en masse from a discussion forum does to you hehe

 

This forum came from people getting kicked out of or getting sick of Koptalk but it's nothing like you describe.

Edited July 29, 2016 by drdooom

[Nerik]

Yeah a few of us were on Koptalk back in the day too (I was personal friends with Duncan Oldham for a while...another long story hehe). I may be wrong, but I think this place managed to gather a much larger membership mostly due to the fact that a more sizeable amount of the initial members are/were from Liverpool, close to Liverpool or the UK, go to the games, therefore knew each other etc. Then others joined and it grew more and more. A great balance I'd say. 

[smithdown]

Bet there were some belter posts?

[John am Rhein]

doesn't ynwa.tv have a forum you could use?

[Stanley Leisure]

If you can't be with the one you love

Love the one you're with

 

 

We're his silver medal.

[smithdown]

We're his silver medal.

We're his ma's house.

[Kvarme Ate My Food]

Any catchphrases or other lore you'd like us to adopt Nerik? To make you feel at home?

[smithdown]

Were there girls there?

[pipnasty]

It's sad that nobody could be arsed with bOOTroom.org anymore.

[RBM]

f***ing 2016! Taking another legend

[magic melia]

Now I know how it feels to be a mistress. We were never his one true love